-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 December 2003 09:10, Matt Thrailkill wrote: > > Are prior versions going to be kept available on rsync mirrors, > similar to how one might leave a FreeBSD box cvsup'ing against > RELENG_4_8 rather than -CURRENT or -STABLE? Furthermore, if prior > versions would be left up on the mirrors, how practical would it be to > maybe have the GLSA people backporting the GLSAs? The BSDs do this, > but obviously you can't keep it up for ever... the OpenBSD people only > do it for the last 2 versions + the current one, don't know where the > FreeBSD people draw the line. >
We still need to decide upon the exact implementations of backporting etc. I would think that we would support at least a year of releases with security backports. This will however be a thing for the long run and will be announced at the time. > Again though, Kudos. I'm feeling some renewed enthusiasm for Gentoo > stirring in me now. We are not yet at the endpoint with more static releases, but we strive to be a good distro for people with a need for stability too. Paul - -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/zwELbKx5DBjWFdsRAvNdAJ9j7yYCYiwPjsH6QlvA3Yk6D3skZgCfWtt3 LMqG4LN5Vvr0ww3uxwFQiQ0= =TjP3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
